And You have placed my foot in the stocks, and You have watched all my works, and have penetrated my heels.

Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled [me], and has raised His bulwark against me.

He spares also his soul from death, and does not allow him to fall in war.

And again, He chastens him with sickness on his bed, and the multitude of his bones are pained.

The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me.

[even] them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death, fettered in poverty and irons;

The pangs of death compassed me; the dangers of hell found me; I found affliction and sorrow.

DALETH. He has built up my ways, He has hedged my paths;

Iniquities ensnare a man, and everyone is bound in the chains of his own sins.